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Is the Cape Parrot a species or a subspecies, and does it matter to CITES?; Status of Rosy Bee-eater on the Niger River, north-central Nigeria; Birds of Joao Vieira and Poilao Marine National Park, Bilagos, Guinea-Bissau; Birds recorded off Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, April-May 2013 and March-May 2014; Greater Honeyguide brood parasitism and presence of a developmental hook in the Rosy Bee-eater.

Notes on the birds of Equatorial Guinea, including nine first country records; Rare seabird sightings from a pelagic longline vessel off South Africa, July–September 2013; Kungwe Apalis Apalis [rufogularis] argentea: a summary; Use of sewage ponds by birds in Khartoum State, Sudan, and their influence on bird distribution in the region; Bird observations around Huye (Butare), southern Rwanda.

Further notes on the natural history of the Ethiopian Bush-crow; First records of Red-necked Buzzard for southern Africa, with notes on identification of buzzards in the subregion; Ornithological observations around Tunis, Tunisia; Incubation and nest-defence behaviour of Streaky-breasted Flufftail in Zambia; Photographic evidence for the occurrence of frigatebirds Fregata sp. in the Gulf of Guinea; Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera in Angola.

Notes on the behaviour, plumage and distribution of the White-tailed Swallow; Predation of seabird eggs by Common Mynas on Bird Island, Seychelles, and its broader implications; Bird functional diversity in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, DR Congo; Observations of Rufous Fishing Owl in Sierra Leone; Observations of seedeaters from Djibouti; Population expansion of Swee Waxbill, Red-billed Firefinch and Karoo Scrub Robin in Lesotho?

Survey of a recently discovered subpopulation of the Critically Endangered Taita Apalis in the Taita Hills, Kenya; Bird observations in Muktar Mountain Forest, eastern Ethiopia: a previously unidentified Important Bird Area; The birds of the Loma Mountains, Sierra Leone; An overlooked population of White-collared Oliveback, in Angola; An Albertine Rift endemic in Western Africa: first record of White-collared Oliveback for Congo-Brazzaville.

Separation of Short-toed and Beaudouin’s Snake Eagles in western Africa; Birds of the Boé region, south-east Guinea-Bissau, including first country records; The birds of Lake Kenyatta, Kenya: a preliminary survey; Greater Flamingo breeding attempts on the Hauts Plateaux and in the Algerian Sahara, in 2011–13; Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea, a new host species for indigobirds Vidua.

The African Bird Club - 20 years of working for birds in Africa; Raptors in northern Cameroon, December 2005 - December 2010; Migration of raptors across the Bab el Mandeb Strait, Djibouti, March 2013; Observations ornithologiques aux environs d’Antananarivo, Madagascar; Unusual concentration of Red-billed Buffalo Weaver nests on pylons in northern Namibia.

Is Sharpe’s Longclaw a fire-dependent species in Kenya’s Altimontane zone?; Bird observations around Juba, South Sudan; Distribution of African Grass Owl in southern Africa; Vulture observations in the Sahelian zones of Chad and Niger; First photographs of Grey Ground Thrush Zoothera princei for Nigeria, from Omo Forest Reserve; How to see Madagascar Pochard, the world’s rarest duck.